Your Irregular Danish Cartoons Update

* These are updates regarding the year's biggest comics story, a wave of violence and political turmoil that can be traced back to the publication of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed in Denmark's newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

* Political aftershocks remain, the kind that might wake you up at night but not the kind you'd call your parents in Missouri and tell them to turn on CNN. The Supreme Court in New Delhi dismissed charges against Uttar Pradesh Minister Haji Yaqoob Quereshi, a government official who jumped on the reward bandwagon for anyone who would kill an offending cartoonist. Denmark PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been asked to delay a trip to India because of the lingering political stink.

* Some prominent figures are just getting around to making an initial statement.

* I always wanted to start a magazine called Hateful Republican. There's really no point there. I'm just sharing.

* American newspapers are still trying to piece together what happened and why -- here's the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

* It looks like the lingering effect may be best felt on college campuses, where it's bound to come up in seminars and the like through Spring semester at least. Scholars are generally adjusting their presentations to engage the issue. The strongest English-language summary piece I've seen from a muslim standpoint in a while can be found here, riffing on a conference on the matter at Tufts.

* I wonder where Capitalism Magazine stands? Wait, no I don't.

* Art Spiegelman has joined the jury of the Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest, which has finished its first stage.
 
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